Medical Social Worker - Pediatrics Office

Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial assessment, crisis support, and care coordination for children and families affected by suspected abuse or neglect.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Evaluates safety and family dynamics, connects patients to resources, coordinates with community partners such as CPS, and ensures safe discharge and follow-up.
• Produces clear, concise and comprehensive documentation of assessment, observations, treatment plan and proposed ongoing interventions.
• Functions as an integrated member of the patient’s treatment team, providing updates regarding the patient and families’ adjustment to the existing behavioral health conditions and/or existing and anticipatory medical conditions.
• Identifies, connects, and serves as a liaison to community resources and support programs on behalf of the patient and family as needed and according to their unique medical and behavioral health needs.
• Identifies gaps in service areas, and works with patients and families to promote additional support and care especially during times of transition and shifts in care as related to patient’s disease process and prognosis.
• Provides supportive counseling, follow-up contact, and referrals to additional resources to patients and families struggling with cessation of treatment as well as to bereaved families.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology or similar program from an accredited program.
• Previous experience in hospital, outpatient, or similar setting working with children, adolescents, and families preferred.
• Training in clinical interventions based on sound clinical theory, with experience or a demonstrated ability to modify these interventions based on a child’s age and developmental level.
• Experience in working in multiple modalities (i.e. individual, family and group), and working effectively with a multidisciplinary team preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with other members of the health care team.
• Knowledge of developmental stages of children and adolescents.
• Knowledge of clinical interventions based on accepted clinical theory and ability to modify these interventions based on a child’s age and developmental level.
• Skilled at identification and coordination of resources within the health care system and in the community.
• Excellent clinical judgment.
• Awareness of culture, ethnicity, developmental ability, gender, socio-economic factors and other considerations as they relate to patient presentation, understanding of illness, interventions, and treatment approaches and options.
• Caring, clinical competence, and professionalism.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and all other professional standards.

Pay

• $70,068.00 - $108,605.00